Once you complete it, your breeder rank increases. You can go to the 'Quest Vendor' in town and recieve a quest. There is no battle system set up to increase your breeder rank in this game, so instead they use a quest system. Special items could also be used to regenerate monsters. Other monster types could later be regenerated from CDs or from silver disc stones that were given to you as in-game events. From there, you can use a CD or DVD to modify their traits, stats, and appearance (give them accessories, armor, or wings). You can start out the game by picking a companion from a list of beginner monsters, which includes Tiger, Hare, Pixie, Antero, Korunu, and Kikimo. There was originally talk that this game would be able to connect to the Monster Farm DS game and transfer monsters over with their stats, but this never became available. You can choose which techniques to save as a shortcut. Techniques are automatically learned as your monster levels up. It decreased the amount of damage done by magical attacks and also effected your monster's mood and temperament. Since there is no training involved in the game, stat gains depend on the type of food fed to your monster. A new stat was added to monsters in the game, called Spirit.

This gives the new monster some of the previous monster's stat gains and traits. Monsters also can have their stats and lifeforce saved in crystals after they die and these crystals can be transferred into a new monster, not necessarily even of the same species. Overfeeding causes monsters to gain weight rapidly, while underfeeding leaves them very sickly-looking. Purple: Purple Vegetables and Fruits, certain Meats Red: Salmon, Carrot, Mushroom, certain Meats The following foods allow your monster to change color:

Instead, monster traits and appearances change depending on what they are fed, their age, and their power level.

Originally there was an option to 'fuse' your monster with a teammate's to make them more powerful, but the idea was never fully developed. This game is much more like an interactive world. However, there is much less emphasis on the ranching portion of raising your monster, and far more emphasis on interaction with other characters and beating level bosses as a team. Game play involves the creating, training, and fighting of monsters much like previous games in the Monster Rancher series.

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